The ostensible reason is simple: I'm going to be live blogging from inside the Vanity Fair Oscar Party next Sunday (I know, I hate me too), and we need some simple method for conveying my updates. Our main blogging platform, Movable Type, is nimble enough for our daily needs, but the interface doesn't really work on an iPhone and we're hoping not to force Bill to be here at 4 Times Square until 5 o'clock in the morning.Hamish was the one who suggested Twitter, so we're trying it out, seeing if we can bring it to heel.

So far, we've posted a grand total of two updates. Both are links to new content that has gone up in the past 24 hours. I wouldn't say we're lighting the Twitterscape on fire just yet, but we do have about 50 followers already.